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I'm not a college football fan (not really a football fan actually) so take this for what it's worth. I was at a friend's house for a birthday party and we wound up watching the second half of the Notre Dame-Pitt game and the fact that ND is #3 in the country is incredible to me. I get that their defense is top notch but that offense looked completely inept. The only play that seemed to work for them was "everyone go long and wait for some space to clear so the QB can run."

From the little I've seen of the Alabama they would beat ND by about 3 touchdowns.

My Oregon feed is really choppy, which sucks because I would love to follow that one too. But right now I am totally loving LSU all of a sudden being able to throw the ball. The K-St. game has been super exciting. OK St. looks a lot better than they did at the beginning of the year. Bedlam is going to be a crazy game again.

since there's no NFL thread, i'm just gonna say here that the schedule makers really did not do andy reid any favors.

the eagles have 4 games against teams coming off bye weeks, and so far, they're 0-3. they lost to pittsburgh, detroit, and atlanta, so those are good teams that they may have lost to anyway, but still, to have to play 4 such games is really not good. the last one is against washington in a few weeks.

and then in the next 7 weeks, they have 2 monday night games, a sunday night game, and a thursday night game, including a stretch where they play 4 games in 18 days -- MON-SUN-SUN-THU.

In what world is Matt Barkley a Heisman candidate (the broadcast just listed him as one)? QBs who play for 3 loss USC teams and throw tons of picks in their losses have no business being Heisman candidates.

Well, that's ball game. I don't think either of the other two games will be this exciting at the end. K-St. has a lot of separation and I don't see Bama giving up 11 more points and not scoring again, although I suppose either game could get close in a hurry.

LSU runs this strange play where they toss to the running back, but with the back in exactly the same position he'd be in if they handed the ball off. It's a halfback toss right up the middle. They're the only team I've ever seen do that.

I wonder if it's a speed thing; get the ball to the back faster that way.

Alabama is vulnerable if for no other reason than their offense is struggling and if you go 3 and out regularly you really expose your defense. This is in fact a big reason why Alabama's offense looks so good. Other teams can't sustain drives.

Alabama is vulnerable if for no other reason than their offense is struggling and if you go 3 and out regularly you really expose your defense. This is in fact a big reason why Alabama's offense looks so good. Other teams can't sustain drives.

Imagine if Miles hadn't given them the opportunity to score before the half. His decisions on 4th down have really cost his team so far.

LSU seems to think they can't play Alabama straight up. Despite the fact they're doing exactly that, and if they weren't doing all of this cute bullshit that Alabama is entirely expecting they may be winning.

Won the turnover battle AND outgained Bama by 100 yards. Miles took so many points off the board tonight. Gambled at the wrong times, went conservative at the wrong time. Give him credit for building a team that could out play Bama, but holy ####, what he called such an awful game tonight.

That was one of the more memorable games I've ever watched in college football. And yeah, LSU deserved to win. But it also goes to show why Saban is such a great coach. He gets the elite talent that only a few coaches get. But he just coaches really solid and fundamentally. I don't think he's doing things other coaches can't do, or even don't do. But he just does it week in, week out, year in, year out. He's a machine.

People are blaming that last drive on LSU's defense. Which, partially, is fair. But it also makes me think "What the #### Alabama? Why weren't you doing this all game?"

I don't think Bama could have done that all game. LSU's defense was clearly in ultra-prevent mode. Even the announcers were commenting on how much space LSU's d-backs were giving Bama's receivers. Give some credit to the Bama offense, for executing and the screen was a great play call, but LSU didn't make them earn it for most of the drive.

I don't think Bama could have done that all game. LSU's defense was clearly in ultra-prevent mode. Even the announcers were commenting on how much space LSU's d-backs were giving Bama's receivers. Give some credit to the Bama offense, for executing and the scree was a great play call, but LSU didn't make them earn it for most of the drive.

Yeah, the announcers said it, but Lundquist and Danielson also have no ####### idea what they're talking about. I just re-watched the drive.

Play 1: A good throw in between a couple of defenders, turn and ran up field.
Play 2: Defender was playing tight, but it looked to be something along the lines of linebacker vs. tight end and the Alabama player made a nice catch.
Play 3: Looked like the WR ran off the DB and then settles for a 10 yard curl. It was the best, and really only, example of prevent defense.
Play 4: Deep ball, coverage was good.
Play 5: Screen pass for a touchdown on a blitz.

Sometimes teams play prevent defenses and it costs them games. Sometimes teams just play better offense in the last couple of minutes, or something random happens, and people blame it on the "prevent defense" thing.

I don't think Bama could have done that all game. LSU's defense was clearly in ultra-prevent mode. Even the announcers were commenting on how much space LSU's d-backs were giving Bama's receivers. Give some credit to the Bama offense, for executing and the screen was a great play call, but LSU didn't make them earn it for most of the drive.

and while the prevent defense is terrible in general, what really baffles me is why you would ever use it in college, where the clock stops on a first down.

jesus, there are human beings who root for the Tide AND the Fighting Irish?

such self-debasement is even POSSIBLE?

if that was addressed to me, i'll just clarify that i am not one of those people. i'm just an agnostic poking fun at the idea of notre dame being god's team, which is kind of hard to doubt after the way that game ended.

I can't handle too many games like the Bama-LSU game. God bless Les Miles, he always seems to cost his team a victory each year. Mettenberger played a far better game then I thought he would so my hats off to him. But in the clutch, AJ shined. Sometimes, you have to be content to steal a victory. In 2009, Bama had two games they shouldn't have won, Tennessee where Mount Cody blocked two field goals, and Auburn where we won on a last minute drive.